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5 days ago · The mother of Constantine the Great, St. Helena, is believed to have restored many sites in the Holy Land, where she discovered the cross on which Christ died and other relics from his Passion, some of which she brought back with her to Rome. These relics can still be venerated today, in Rome’s Basilica of the Holy Cross in Jerusalem.
2 days ago · Constantine's mother was Helena, a Greek woman of low social standing from Helenopolis of Bithynia. It is uncertain whether she was legally married to Constantius or merely his concubine. His main language was Latin, and during his public speeches he needed Greek translators.
- 25 July 306 – 22 May 337
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23 hours ago · 1) Saint Helena - Patron of Archaeologists. After her son Constantine legalized Christianity, Helena went to the Holy Land to preserve the sacred sites of Christendom. "She went on an archaeological expedition, and she found the relic of the True Cross," Scheel explains. 2) Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton - First American-born Saint
3 days ago · The Roman Emperor Constantine’s mother, Saint Helena, a convert to Christianity, went on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land to locate where the important events in the life of Jesus Christ occurred, and to preserve the relics of the Christian faith that remained there.
4 days ago · The True Cross. Arguably the most significant relic in Christendom is the True Cross, believed to be the actual cross upon which Jesus was crucified. The discovery of the True Cross is attributed to Saint Helena, mother of Emperor Constantine the Great, during her pilgrimage to Jerusalem in the early 4th century.
23 hours ago · Helena. Mother of Constantine I. Æ Nummus. Constantinople mint, AD 330. FL IVL HELE[NAE] AVG, diademed and draped bust right / PAX PUBLICA, Pax standing left, holding branch and transverse sceptre; CONS[A] in exergue. RIC 35. 1.50g, 14mm. aVF. Nice portrait. From Evelyn's Coins
5 days ago · Hagia Sophia, place of worship built at Constantinople (now Istanbul, Turkey) in the 6th century CE under the direction of the Byzantine emperor Justinian I. It is considered to be the most important Byzantine structure in the world and one of the world’s great monuments.
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